Episode 47.5- The Taliban Fireside Chat Special w/ Rik and Jon

It's a bonus Fireside chat. Hang With Rik and Jon while they talk Afghanistan and the US’s botched pull-out, as well as a whole host of topics.

Show Notes:

The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs | CNN Business

Moderna's Experimental HIV Vaccine Could Begin Human Trials as Soon as This Week | ScienceAlert

Alaska was leased to the U.S. for 99 years... What? | Russian Beyond

150 Years After Sale of Alaska, Some Russians Have Second Thoughts | The New York Times

Stories of black Americans, who fled to the USSR to escape race discrimination | RT Documentary

Los Confederados in Brazil: Recreating the Southern American Dream | Georgetown Journal of History

The town in Brazil that embraces the Confederate flag | BBC News